COHTN vs ASND
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof vs A Street Car Named Desire
1. Which of Tennessee's plays was better?
2. Which movie was better - produced, acted, directed, etc.?
3. Who was hotter - Marlon or Paul?
1. Well, Williams personally preferred Cat on a Hot Tin Roof --it was his favorite.
2. It's sort of close but I prefer Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The material hits home much more. That said, Elia Kazan's Streetcar surpasses Richard Brooks' Cat's direction in my opinion. On IMDB, Streetcar has a 8.1 rating compared to a 8.0 rating for Cat. It's close but Streetcar has more than double the votes.
3. I'm a straight male so I'm not attracted to either. Elizabeth Taylor beats out a 47-year-old Vivien Leigh any day of the week though.
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Stripping under the name Malcolm Sex, I pleased the ladies by any means necessary.
Vivien Leigh was NOT 47.... she was 38, and she was still pretty sexy, but my vote goes to Elizabeth Taylor 100%
1) I like Streetcar more
2) Acting is different but more preferable in Streetcar. I still think Taylor should've won the oscar for Car over Susan Hayward. Direction was better in Streetcar.
3) like the 2nd post... Elizabeth Taylor
WARNING: I'M SEXY!
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I think they're both equally good...just a different mood in each play. ASND was dark and brooding and dealt with mental illness whereas COAHTR was more about greed and dysfunctional relationships. I'm such a huge fan of Williams that I think everything he wrote was brilliant. I don't have a favorite. It depends on the mood I'm in as to which one I want to see. He wrote about the South almost better than anyone and he wrote about it revealing both its beauty and its warts. Faulkner and Capote are two others who 'wrote' the South brilliantly.
"If I don't suit chu, you kin cut mah thoat!"